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EbonyTECHNICAL PROPERTIES Ebony is not easy to handle. It must be dried with great care, and it must be skilfully  processed, for it is hard and brittle. However, it can, with care, be machined to an excellent finish.Ebony has always been used in Europe and Asia and especially for furniture and carving in the ancient courts of Egypt, Persia and India. Though it is available today only in small sizes, it is still used wherever it can be shown to decorative advantage - for handles, door knobs; the backs of brushes, the butts of billiard cues, and for a variety of turned ware. It is used in a wide range of musical instruments, for the fittings of violins, for organ stops, castanets, and, traditionally, for the black keys of keyboard instruments. Extract from 'The International book of WOOD' curtesy Michael Beazley Publishers Limited 1979. |
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